We are delighted to be able to produce these sensational boats under licence since 2023
Our first completed boat Sargasso enjoying a leisurely afternoon by Snape Maltings
Atlas Class Barge Boat
We are delighted to announce that we will be able to produce these sensational boats, under licence, from 2023. This 14 foot craft has superb lines, she easily carries 4 adults and can be powered by oar, sail or a small outboard.
This boat lends itself to a number of traditional sail plans; gaff, lug or even sprit are all available.
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The Atlas story
The wooden sailing barge Atlas was built in 1895 to take bricks to London from Cremer’s brick fields at Oare Creek, Kent. The sailing barge Atlas is long gone and only her boat remains under the same name.
After her original barge boat wore out another 13.7ft barge boat was built in about 1949 by Cremer’s foreman shipwright Bill Gregory who had spent a lifetime perfecting this type of boat.
This was the last open boat that Bill Gregory built, but the moulds were hung up on the wall. Other shipwrights at the yard used the moulds and a new boat for the barge Cabby was built from the moulds made by Bill Gregory.
The barge Atlas was sold to the Westwood family who lived aboard her but when they sold the barge they kept the boat and used her for pleasure trips from Wargrave on the Thames.
Eventually the barge boat Atlas finished up in Sarah Westwood’s garden in Shotley, upside down and rotten in the bottom. The boat was given to Robert Simper in 2017 and he had her rebuilt by the Pioneer Trust, Brightlingsea. Since then she has been sailed on the river Deben, the barge boat Atlas has been sailed in Brittany, Looe and the North Norfolk coast.
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